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It's a lovely expression, "I feel free to love." Everyone affirms the idea of love. As an abstraction it gets a lot of votes. But in my experience, "principles" (my shoulds) tap the brakes. "Aren't you endorsing "x" by unreservedly loving this person? Isn't it possible that you're causing harm?" The "should" ties a weight to the freedom, plants a doubt. The Reaction to my own libertine phase still exercises an influence over my freedom.

And so the idea of being FREE to love, not as a should, nor an ideal, but as an ongoing reality, that is powerful.

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